The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formally appointed Grant Bradburn as the top coach of the nationwide staff on Sunday, Might 13. Following a rigorous recruiting course of by the apex board, Bradburn, who was appointed because the interim coach in April, is now set to serve a two-year contract with the aspect.
Notably, he served in the course of the not too long ago concluded residence collection towards New Zealand whereby the Males in Inexperienced comfortably sealed the five-match ODI collection, 4–1, and the five-match T20I collection, 2–2. The PCB chief, Najam Sethi, confirmed his appointment and expressed his enjoyment of having Bradburn on board for the subsequent two years.
“I’m delighted to call Grant Bradburn as the top coach of our males’s aspect. Bradburn joins the aspect with a plethora of teaching expertise. Having labored with our males’s aspect earlier than and on the Nationwide Cricket Academy, he understands our tradition and philosophy of cricket properly and is a perfect candidate to take our staff ahead,” stated Sethi in a press launch.
“After the announcement of Mickey Arthur as staff director, Bradburn’s appointment is one other step in our endeavor of placing collectively a extremely certified teaching panel so our gamers can profit from their experiences and dominate world cricket in all three codecs,” added Sethi.
We have now been working onerous on our elevating our sport: Grant Bradburn
Previous to the Asia Cup 2023 and the ODI World Cup In India, Pakistan are slated to characteristic in a three-match ODI collection towards Afghanistan. Bradburn beforehand served as a fielding coach in 2018 and later as the top of high-performance teaching till 2021.
Following his appointment, Bradburn expressed his gratitude for the chance and added that he together with Staff Director, Mickey Arthur will intention to boost the sport and develop the gamers.
“It’s a nice honor for me to work with the extremely proficient and skillful aspect like Pakistan as a head coach. We have now been working onerous on our elevating our sport and are desirous to showcase our rising expertise. Mickey Arthur and I are excited to assist, problem and develop our gamers. The New Zealand collection has been useful to get sport time and create readability of roles, tradition and model to win,” stated Bradburn.
